Casual Brutality
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Bissoondath Neil
Unyielding Clamour of the Night
 List Price: Price: $18.00 You Save: $14.95 (45%) DescriptionWinner of the Quebec Writers' Federation's 2005 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.A young man of privileged upbringing leaves his home in the prosperous north of his island nation to teach in the devastated south, where a civil war festers. Over the course of several months, in which he befriends many of the town's people and becomes teacher not only to the town's children but to the enlisted men of the local army station, he loses his faith in and hope for the future. The Unyielding Clamour of the Night is a sympathetic novel that enters the mind and soul of a character to reveal the brutal and lasting affects of acts of violence, and how violence only begets violence.
Under the Ribs of Death
 List Price: Price: $7.25 You Save: $8.70 (55%) DescriptionSet in the immigrant community of Winnipeg’s North End, Under the Ribs of Death follows the progress of young Sandor Hunyadi as he struggles to cast off his Hungarian background and become a “real Canadian.” Embittered by poverty and social humiliation, Sandor rejects his father’s impractical idealism and devotes himself single-mindedly to becoming a successful businessman. Equipped with a new name and a hardened heart, he is close to realizing his ambition when fortune’s wheel takes an unexpected – and possibly redemptive – turn.Combining social realism and moral parable, Under the Ribs of Death is John Marlyn’s ironic portrayal of the immigrant experience in the years leading up to the Great Depression. As a commentary on the problems of cultural assimilation, this novel is as relevant today as it was when first published in 1957. From the Paperback edition.
Digging up the Mountains: Selected Stories (King Penguin)
List Price: Price: $16.99 DescriptionThis dazzling collection of short stories, originally published in 1985, marks the brilliant debut of Neil Bissoondath, a major voice in Canadian fiction. Focusing on contemporary themes of cultural dislocation, revolution, and the shifting politics of the Third World, the stories resonate with Bissoondath’s compassion for people threatened by circumstances beyond their control.From the Paperback edition.
The Texture of Identity: The Fiction of Mg Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath and Rohinton Mistry
 List Price: Price: $16.94 You Save: $9.01 (35%) DescriptionCultural Writing. Asian Studies. Literary Criticism. Arguing that globalization is no longer a term defining only international cash flow but also includes the flow and exchange of cultures, this book examines the works of three major Canadian writers of South Asian origin and born in three different parts of the world-MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry. To demonstrate the complex, textured identities of his authors of choice, Martin Genetsch shows that these and other writers not only negotiate their Canadian identities but also explore themselves in the cultures, histories, and geographical locations they come from. The result is a fine study of an important and defining aspect of Canadian literature.
Neil Bissoondath: Indo-caribbean-canadian Diaspora (Writers of the Indian Diaspora)
 List Price: Price: $17.24 You Save: $4.76 (22%) DescriptionNeil Bissoondath: Indo-Caribbean-Canadian Diaspora is the first full-length book on one of the prominent writers of today. Frank Birbalsingh, himself from the Indo-Caribbean diaspora and a pioneer in Caribbean studies, has worked through literary and famiBissoondath Neil News
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Ainsi, un échange réunira notamment jeudi soir Dany Laferrière et Neil Bissoondath autour de l'idée d'une "littérature-monde". Autre grand moment du festival: trois rencontres intitulées "vu d'ailleurs" durant lesquelles trois grands romanciers
LyonCapitale.fr12 écrivains passent aux AssisesStéphane Audeguy participera à la table ronde « La Puissance de la Nature » en compagnie de Rick Bass, Neil Bissoondath et Jorn Riel. Samedi 30 mai à 11h aux Subsistances. Il sera également au centre du petit-déjeuner « Un romancier au musée » où